Dentons

Technology, Media Regulations, Communications, Competition and Antitrust, Intellectual Property

Simon specialises in Telecoms, IT, E-Commerce, Technology and Intellectual Property Law and is Head of Telecoms for the Middle East. He has over 20 years of legal experience, including over 10 years as a partner in UK-based international law firms (8 of these in a leading telecoms and technology firm).

He advises on a broad range of regulatory, antitrust, commercial contracts, licensing, corporate and employment law issues.

Simon has spent 6 years in the Middle East, initially as Head of Legal and Regulatory in Batelco, the Bahrain telecoms incumbent, then performing the same function in Atheeb, a new entrant in the telecoms sector in Saudi Arabia, before starting his own practice advising on telecoms and IT throughout the Middle East.

English

Barrister, England and Wales, 1988 Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales, 1995

Oxford University, 2010, Diploma, Intellectual Property Law and Practice University of Trier, 1988, Master, German Law Oxford University, 1985, BA, Politics, Philosophy and Economics